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STATUS OF COAL PROJECTS (Underline denotes changes since June 1994)
COMMERCIAL AND R&D PROJECTS (Continued)
Sponsors were in the process of negotiations for loan guarantees and price supports from the United States Synthetic Fuels
Corporation when the SFC was dismantled by Congressional action in late December 1985. On March 18, 1986 Illinois Gover
nor James R. Thompson announced a $26 million state and local incentive package for COGA-1 in an attempt to move the
$690 million project forward. The project sponsor is continuing with engineering and financing efforts, but the project itself
has not moved forward significantly since 1986.
Project Cost: $690 million
COLOMBIA COAL - GASIFICATION PROJECT Carbocol
(C-160)
The Colombian state coal company, Carbocol plans for a coal gasification plant in the town of Amaga in the mountainous in
land department of Antioquia.
Japan Consulting Institute is working on a feasibility study
on the gasification plant and current plans are to build a US$10 to
20 million pilot plant initially. This plant would produce what Carbocol calls "a clean gas fuel"
for certain big industries in An
tioquia involved in the manufacture of food products, ceramics and glass goods. According to recommendations in the
Japanese study, this plant would be expanded in the 1990s to produce urea if financing is found.
Project Cost: $20 million initial
$200 million eventual
CORDERO - COAL UPGRADING DEMONSTRATION PROJECT Cordero
Mining Company (C-170)
Cordero Mining Company will demonstrate the Carbontec Syncoal process at a plant to be built near its mine in Gillette,
Wyoming. The demonstration will produce 250,000 tons per year of upgraded coal product from high-moisture, low-sulfur,
low-rank coals.
The project was selected by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in 1991 for a Clean Coal Technology Program
award. DOE will fund 50 percent of the $34.3 million project cost. In August 1992. Cordero Mining Company withdrew from
negotiations.
Project Cost: $34.3 million
- CORDERO FORMCOKE PLANT Kennecott
Energy and PURON (C-172)
A coal enhancement plant, using the PURON process, is planned to be constructed adjacent to the Kennecott Energy Company Cor
dero Mine, located about 20 miles east of Gillette. Wyoming. The PURON process represents an adaptation of the FMC formcoke
process that has been processing subbituminous coal at Kemmerer, Wyoming for three decades. The PURON enhancement plant is
designed to produce about 6 million tons of high-quality (12.500 BTU/lb) formcoke briquettes per year by drying, devolatilizing. and
briquetting the subbituminous (8,300 BTU/lhl. low-sulfur Powder River Basin coal mined at Cordero. These briquettes are designed
to meet the criteria of the U.S. Clean Air Act.
An air quality permit application had been submitted in late 1994. Decision by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
is expected in early 1995. Construction of the enhancement plant, estimated to require a labor force of 1.200 workers, is scheduled to
be started by March 1995. The plant should be operational bv mid-1997.
Project Cost: $500 million
- COREX-CPICOR INTEGRATED STEEL/POWER PLANT Centerior
Products and Chemicals (C-175)
Energy Corporation, Geneva Steel Company. Air
Selected under the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Round 5, this project
will demonstrate the combined production of hot iron via the COREX process and a combined cycle power plant fueled by the
export gas from the COREX process. The proposed plant, producing 1.17 million tons of hot metal per year and 181 MW of
power, will be integrated into the existing steelmaking facility at LTV Steel Company's Cleveland works. In 1994. LTV
withdrew from participation. The participants are meeting with DOE to negotiate a cooperative agreement and obtain ap
proval for relocation of the project to Geneva Steel plant at Vineyard. Utah.
The project will demonstrate the integrated production of liquid iron using the COREX direct iron making process developed
bv Deutsche Voest-Alpine Industrienlagenbau GmbH and the production of electric power from a combined cycle facility
fueled bv a byproduct fuel gas stream from the COREX process. The project, anticipated to start up in 1999, will produce ap
proximately 3.000 tons per day of liquid iron for use in Geneva's steel making process and 250 megawatts of electricity.
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